Senior Design Manager

2 weeks ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Laing O'Rourke Full time

Are you an Electrical Engineer who is passionate about exemplary Design Management?

Do you have end to end Water or Rail sector design experience?

Are you considering what's next for your career?

Then we'd love to hear from you

We are looking for an energetic, enthusiastic and people focused Electrically biased Senior Design Manager with water or sewage experience to join the Laing O'Rourke team on the Beckton Sewage Treatment Works (STW) Project, which is the largest STW works in Europe, based in East London.

Laing O'Rourke is working with Thames Water on this £123m project to ensure Beckton sewage works can cope with London's growing population.

The opportunity:

This Senior Design Manager will lead the delivery of effective design across this single large-scale project. They provide a focus for, and lead the pre-construction phase design processes, liaising with the client, the design team, in-house bid team and the operations team. On live projects, they implement and lead the processes that enable the design to be challenged and interrogated within a collaborative team framework, to enable risks to be reduced.

This Senior Design Manager will be a senior member of the Design Job Family and Technical Function, which is there to ensure technical excellence, assurance and performance across all projects and opportunities from pre-project, early engagement and work winning through to detailed delivery. All our designers are part of our Engineering Enterprise which aims to maximise and realise the potential of design to increase certainty on our projects.

What will the role look like?

  • Providing a focus for and lead the pre-construction phase briefing and design processes.
  • Leads LOR's design management procedures, providing a functional link between the commercial and construction teams and the designers throughout the project life.
  • Implements the processes that enable the design to be challenged and interrogated within a collaborative team framework.
  • Implements agreed processes for the production, control and distribution of design information at different project stages.
  • Ensures regular progress reporting of the design.
  • Ensures design information is thoroughly reviewed: for buildability, safety and maintainability, 'completeness & compliance' and technical suitability before use.
  • Assists the Design Leader in promoting innovation in design management, methodology, processes and practices.
  • Assist the Design Leader in promoting the application and adoption of the Company's vision and values in all design management activities.

What skills & experience are we looking for?

  • Experience end to end in managing design – from concept to handover.
  • First degree in Electrical Engineering plus design related experience.
  • Water or rail sector specialism as well as deep and broad experience managing the design of construction of building services projects.

For after Beckton is delivered, Laing O'Rourke has been appointed as a construction partner for National Grid's Great Grid Partnership programme, which forms part of a £9bn supply chain framework which will also support infrastructure projects beyond 2030 which offers long term career development opportunities to an ambitious Electrical Engineer.

Don't match all the criteria? We are open and always happy to hear from people with transferable skill sets and a commitment to learning.

About us:

We are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.

Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.

As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term health conditions and disabilities through the 'Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know prior to interview what adjustments are required as well as discussing how we can support you in the workplace.

We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email

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